EcoFest@Pottstown 2019: Call for Participants

The Pottstown’s Second Annual EcoFest(@PottstownEcoFest) will feature environmentally-friendly and animal-friendly services, products, and food, plus information from local businesses and non-profits. The theme for this year’s EcoFest is: “Appreciating and Protecting Wildlife”. If your business or organization offers event attendees a way to help other species thrive, we encourage you to use this event to educate them about it.

This event will be vegan*. We welcome vegan and non-vegan vendors to participate but we require that all items at the event be vegan and that any services or upcoming events you wish to promote at EcoFest also be eco and animal friendly. We would love for your business or organization to participate!

Vegan and Eco-friendliness

*Note: Vegan = completely plant based: free of any animal products or by-products, and Cruelty-free: items that have not been tested on animals. Examples of animal ingredients to avoid in food and products: meat, gelatin, dairy, eggs, honey, wool, fur, leather, feathers. Also, please do not sell water in plastic bottles and please be mindful to use eco-friendly materials for any carry-out containers at the event – all packaging should be recyclable on site, or compostable (no Styrofoam, unnumbered plastic containers, plastic straws, etc.).

Some ways to get involved

Local Businesses

Do
you offer any product or service that helps to protect the
environment and/or animals? You may without even realizing it. Does
your business or product:

Recycle
or compost materials and/or use recycled/composted materials?

Conserve
energy?

Provide
clean, renewable energy?

Use
natural, non-toxic ingredients or products?

Promote
organic farming or is it made from organic materials?

Replace
disposable items with reusable ones?

Help
wildlife or companion animals?

Contain
only cruelty free ingredients* or use only cruelty free products?

Protect
or create wildlife habitat?

Promote
appreciation for nature and/or other species?

Promote
healthy, mindful living?

Please do not hesitate to ask us for suggestions if you want to participate but need ideas.

Suggested Ways to Participate

Host a table at EcoFest to provide flyers, coupons, and/or samples

Host a table to sell products

Educate the public with information, displays, demonstrations, or activities

Be an event sponsor and have your business advertised on online and at the event

Restaurants

Pottstown EcoFest is a vegan event. Plant-based eating is the most animal-friendly diet and the most Earth-friendly one as well. Does your menu include at least two vegan entrees, or would you like it to? If so, we suggest the following ways to participate:

Set up a food truck, cart or table at the event to showcase your vegan options

Set up a table and give away vegan samples and menus with the vegan options high-lighted

Sell gift certificates for Mother’s Day presents (Mother’s Day is May 12th)

Provide coupons for 10% to 20% off of a vegan meal (dollar limit of your choice), which will be valid for at least a week after the event

Be a restaurant sponsor of the event: provide promotional information about the vegan options at your restaurant and/or coupons to be placed in our EcoFest event bags (see sponsorship below)

Non-Profits

Organizations that promote a plant-based diet and/or protection of the earth, animals, or wildlife habitat can:

Provide information, displays, or demonstrations

Collect signatures

Recruit volunteers

Sell fund-raising items

Introduce the public to companion animals up for adoption or rescued wildlife